This booklet includes chapters written through eminent scientists at the newest improvement in computing device know-how and applica- tions in Japan. the target of the e-book is to supply an information of the massive advances being made through Japane- se scientists at the basic sector of knowledge know-how and within the so-called 5th iteration desktops. within the first bankruptcy, Watanabe of the NEC company, descri- bes complicated structure and expertise of supercomputing platforms. This subject matter is by way of Nakamura of Tohoku Uni- versity within the subsequent bankruptcy. one other form of supercomputer for vector processing, the FACOM vice chairman 2000 sequence is then des- cribed by way of Uchida ofFujitsu Ltd in bankruptcy three. specialist structures are provided within the subsequent chapters via Ue- no and Oomari of Tokyo Denki college and through Koseki and Goto of the NEC company. vital functions in com- puter pics are defined in bankruptcy Six by means of Ishii and Mu- rakami of Fujitsu Laboratories. Hayahi from an analogous Labora- tory then discusses neurocomputers in Japan. the ultimate chap- ter through Noguchi of Tohoku Universityillustrates an immense program in communications.

Meteorological info are crucial for either day by day power administration and for making plans for the area s destiny strength safeguard. The editor of this compendium, a mechanical engineer with foreign adventure, has amassed articles that would inspire extra effective discussion among the strength and meteorology groups.

A technique to form know-how and its embedding in society within the twenty first century is thru the visions that consultant their improvement, in particular about the long term societal point of view. A serious dialogue and evaluation of those visions is a prerequisite for influencing the process improvement.

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However. a semantic network representation model seems to be widely applicable as a common representition model. In addition. a large complex object should be represented in a hierarchy. because the number of similar modules(parts) must be included in the model. As a conclusion we think that the object model can be appropriately represented in an extended framebased representation formalism to construct a knowledge base. Because the frame model has flexible and powerful functions which comes from useful features such as hierarchical data structures with attribute inheritance functions.

The knowledge about principles and theories and the knowledge about structures and behaviors are known as typical deep knowledge. g. Davis[9]. Ueno[12]. For this reason we can suppose that knowledge-based systems having features to manipulate these kinds of knowledge may be applicable to a variety of domain problems. Problems to be solved by knowledge-based approaches are divided into two contrastive groups which are analysis-oriented problems such as medical diagnosis and trouble shooting. and synthesis-oriented problems such as intelligent CAD.

At the top level the general structure of the camera system is described. This figure shows that Camera consists of Body, ShutterMechanism and Mirror, ShutterMechanism consists of ShutterUnit, ReleaseSwitch and ShutterDial, and ShutterUnit consists of Shutter, ShutterControl and ElectronicControl, respectively. At the middle level the specific focal plane camera named "Cameral" is described. ShutterMechanism are redefined as in the figure. At the bottom level the instance object of Cameral, named Cameral-A, is defined, and the related frames are defined also.